Day 26 – July 1, 2001 – After a long and truly miserable night, we finally arrived in Juneau. Because the Alaska Marine Highway had bumped our sailing up by nearly five hours, we arrived in Juneau at 5:30 am. As you might expect, the Super 8 didn’t have our rooms ready. We drove into town, thinking we might find a place to have breakfast (and also because we missed the motel on the way past) and were making a turn around when the Johnson/Capps car made a sudden loud snap. The rear axle, which had been off the car twice before already, had snapped. Ross Lilliker towed the injured car back to the Super 8 where we took up residence in their parking lot and lobby while the men pulled the rear end out of that car. Some of the women did laundry while others simply waited in the lobby as a silent (or not so silent) encouragement to the motel staff to find us a place to sleep. Finally, around 2:00 pm, the last of the group received room keys and those who weren’t under a car went to bed.

